For the sake of proper attributions, I cannot let you to call Catalans "BIGOTS"
Catalans *might* call each other "you, Polack"!, in the same way African Americans would call each other "you, Nigger!".
Nevertheless, Is it OK to call Catalans "Polacks" or to call African Americans "Niggers"?
**No**.
If a non-African American calls an African American "Nigger", the caller is getting into trouble (or asking for trouble).
The same goes for Catalans. If a non-Catalan calls "Polack" to a Catalan, the caller is getting into trouble (or asking for trouble).
Yes, even as (some) Catalans like the word "Polack" for themselves (as Poland and Catalonia have suffered similar fate in history up to the 20th Century, when Poland become again a self-governing country and Catalonia stayed ruled by Franch and Spanish governments; there's even a book that 'sings' the similitudes between Poland and Catalonia ).
I (a Catalan) rise the "Polack" question to all "real" Polish (people with Polish passport) I met: this makes for a smile and an interesting conversation starter, followed by beer and friendship.
We (Catalan people) were not the ones who used the term "Polack" to refer to "people who speak like dogs, who speak a language that is so alien that we need to call them 'Polacks' " (as they did until not so long ago). The ones who used the term were (mainly) members of Franco's Army and followers. Franco was a dictatorm in the same league as Mussolini, Hitler and similar fascist scum. And, as back then under franco's rule, the Army was formed by mandatory conscription, we (Catalan people) were denigrated, called names and "properly instructed in the Customs and Language of 'The Empire'".
So, please rdmiller3, use the term "bigot" with whoever started using the term "Polack" as a pejorative/insult/curse word towards us, Catalan people,
Reading in the TDI Club I was surprised to read that Ethanol provides worst MPG than pure gasoline.
Does anyone have information on this topic?
Because if Ethanol provides worst milleage, and it is not energy-efficient to prodce Ethanol... this might be just a marketing campaign, not a fuel product.
As far as "the best Linux distribution" for a first-time switcher, Ubuntu is as good as any other Linux distro.... as far as there is an experienced Linux user helping thorugh the first hour or two. In my case, I recommend Mandriva because is what I use.
You use Ubuntu, so Ubuntu is the best for you and your "first-time switcher friends", that's cool with me.
But for me, Mandriva is the best for me and for my "first-time switcher friends", as it is what I use.
Mandriva is very good for newbies and gurus alike: in Mandriva you have "wizards", terminals, multimedia apps, compilers, KDE themes, server stuff...
Maybe you didn't grasp the concepts of Linux, as I thought the article was pretty darn good.
As for paying Mandriva to play DVDs, it is one o the options. As the "free as in beer" Mandriva only contains "free as in Freedom" software (and only 'libre' software that follows the law in USA and in Europe), DVD utilities such as the "deCSS" software cannot be included.
Thus, Mandriva offers you a legal way to view DVDs: purchasing a boxed edition, with all that non-libre software available for you.
And there is still another way: the "deCSS" software is available on "PLF", a non official Mandriva repository that contains all the deCSS, divx codecs and all that software which happens to be not legal everywhere, and also some non-libre software, like nVidia and ATI drivers.
Considering the hoops that I had to go through to make Mandrake do multimedia AND DVDs, your friend might as well be as skilled as 'Mr. decss' Johansen to get video or music playback.
I am not as skilled as Mr decss Johansen. Nevertheless, I got multimedia AND DVD reporduction very easily.
One option, is to buy the boxed version, which comes with support for all the proprietary stuff. I don't know if you know, but "Mandriva Free" only includes free (as in Freedom) software by design. This option (boxed version) works great for people not that expert in Linux.
Another option is to do what I did:
I went to Easy URPMI website, selected the PLF repositories, configured follogwing the instructions on that page (copy&paste), launched the GUI install program, searched for "codecs" and all the other files that had "mp3", "ogg", "dvd" , etc in the name , installed them all, and presto!:
* multimedia works like a charm: mp3, ogg, avi, mpeg... (using amaroK and gmplayer), even web-embeded content. * I view my legal (read, protected) DVDs easily, with gmplayer or kaffeine or...
It is very easy, really. Even I can do it:)
I used the info found in this link. I found this link at "Mandriva Linux" entry on Wikipedia. All is explained very well.
There is even an online urpmi configurator tool, where you can even select the program sources "forbidden" in the USA, as they contain pre-packaged programs and modules that will allow you to watch DVDs, have 3D acceleration with ATI and nVidia cards, and a whole bunch of programs that its legality is doubtful in USA, as well as non-free programs.
Is it me or there seems to be two Ubuntu-related news everyday?
Yes, Ubuntu is great, Mark and Canonical are providing a ton of cash to Debian development and all that.
But I'm starting to get a little tired of a new Slashdot entry everytime there is a new commit to Ubuntu's CVS.
This is getting as old as "Such and Such Company, inc" is using Linux in an enterprise environment!
In the begining, it was exciting to hear of another company using Linux; it was new and got me all happy and feeling good.
Same thing with Ubuntu news. In the begining, I loved the fact that a company was investing in Debian. Now, well, I just get bored with the twice-a-day Ubuntu news.
Try some other Linux distro, end-user oriented, easy workstation-oriented.
Ubuntu, in all its glory, felt to me like one of those older Mandrakes (8.something): works and all, but if feels old... and Mandrake 8.2 is from 2001 or something like that.
Yes, for a Debian user, Ubuntu is an enormous leap forward in easyness and usability (as a desktop). But there are other distros that have invested years in desktop Linux.
Then, if you do not need to use a Debian-based distro and can live without the perceived 1337-ness of using a "real distro like Debian", please do youself a favour and try, say, Mandriva One.
It is a live version of Mandriva that you can easily install. I belileve is going to be realeased *any moment now*.
Sure, Ubuntu is nice and works pretty much OK, like any other Linux distro. But then, only hype and "Debian-ness" has managed to turn a mediocre desktop distro into the dearest love of all technical sites.
Do you want to run Linux on your desktop? Then try a desktop Linux, a distro with years of experience in desktop Linux, usability, etc. Don't fall for hype.
Try Linspire, PCLinuxOS (a Mandriva-derived), Mandriva...
* who has been asked to depart the company (as a hint that his services are not needed anymore, and he is offered an easy and honourable way out), * who instead decides to stay and start a new department,... manages to only put out a 3-pages PDF that was only mildly interesting.
After any merger, there are always redundant positions. Gael Duval should have got the hint and leave with a nice press release saying something like "I'll be pursuing my goals as in this momment in my life I want to do blah blah blah.".
This would have been nice of him. He would have kept an open door at Mandriva. And any company would have liked how he had exited his company.
Now, he is a walking problem. Do you think any company would like to hire a manager that sues his employer?
I don't think so.
"It's not personal, it's businness"
BTW, I use Mandriva, and I've used for a long time. Mandriva is pretty good, works for me, does all what I want, I have no trouble with it. All the FUD read here by Mandriva-haters ("rpms are bad", "apt-get is the best", "ubuntu is dah shiznitz", "Gentoo is the only way", "PCLinuxOS does everything pus more") is just FUD.
The reason why farmed crops aren't viable is because you're taking oil, turning it into soybeans and back into oil again. From a thermodynamics perspective, this is a net loss.
You forget an extra input of energy in that process: our star "the Sun". Photosynthesis uses up tons of energy from the Sun.
With this correction, you will see that The Laws of Thermodynamics are well kept.
Performance: 59 kW / 80 hp Average consumption: 3.9 liter (60 mpg) diesel. The CO2 emissions: reduced by 16 g/km. Maximum speed: 76 km/h (109 mph) 0-100-km/h (0-62 mph)-sprint: 12.8 seconds
"As basic equipment the two-door Volkswagen also has front and side airbags, ABS, power windows, multi function display and an electro hydraulic power steering"
The production of algae to harvest oil for biodiesel has not been undertaken on a commercial scale, but working feasibility studies have been conducted to arrive at the above yield estimate. In addition to a high yield, this solution does not compete with agriculture for food, requiring neither farmland nor fresh water.
One thing that people might not know is that Biodiesel is a BYPRODUCT. The food part is still used as feedstock. If we get more specific, there are actually two by-products of corn and soy crops. Biodiesel and soap (glycerin).
Does biodiesel take more energy to make than it gives back?
No. Biodiesel actually has the highest "energy balance" of any transportation fuel. The DOE/USDA lifecycle analysis shows for every unit of fossil energy it takes to make biodiesel, 3.2 units of energy are gained. This takes into account the planting, harvesting, fuel production and fuel transportation to the end user.
Can I use biodiesel in my existing diesel engine?
Biodiesel works in any diesel engine with few or no modifications to the engine or the fuel system.
But modern diesel cars do take a conversion because they need to have synthetic tubing.
Modern diesels already have synthetic tubes.
All diesel vehicles sold in the US since (at least) year 2000 use the synthetic rubber fuel lines (which do not disolve with BioDiesel) instead the natural rubber fuel lines.
Nevertheless, if you have an older Diesel, replacing a bunch of rubber lines with off-the-shelve lines (today all diesel lines are synth) it's pretty darn easy.
Then, as a bonus, BioDiesel will clean up your injectors. This is why most of American-made Diesel engines today come from the factory with B5 or B10 (Diesel fuel containing either 5% or 10% of BioDiesel).
* The firing lines of Civil War soldiers could be completely cut down by a single man with a modern machine gun.
There were machineguns in use during Civil War (wikipedia)
* A Roman Legion could be completely destroyed by a single bomb from a fighter or helicopter.
What kind of bomb? A Legio Romana was pretty big and, in battle formation, would occupy a pretty big size of terrain. Yes, when they are all slepping in the snow, freezing to death, body-against-body, then a single bomb from a fighter-bomber might kill'em all.
Helicopters do not use bombs. Helicopters use rockets, missiles, machineguns, etc.
* An RPG or Bazooka could eliminate a castle's defenses by simply blowing a hole through the side
In order to get Bazookas or RPGs blowing holes on the side of a castle, you'll need:
All your post is pretty good, except your final line:
Put another way, missiles didn't win the Cold War, Bluejeans did.
It was the US military build-up[*] during Reagan's era that provoked the fall of the Evil Empire. No Evil empire, no Warsaw PAct, no Cold war.
Thus, the missiles did indeed win the Cold War.
[*] More nuclear aircraft carriers, more submarines, more and better tanks and fighter airplanes... and, of course, Star Wars Project. Not the one with Luke and Leia, the other one.
I use KDE, I use its apps extensively. But the following statement is not true:
Quanta -- Rich web development environment for PHP, CSS, DocBook, HTML, XML, etc with advanced context sensitive autocompletion, internal preview and more.
My wish is for Quanta to pay more atention to PHP. But, sadly, right now Quanta is just a mediocre tool for PHP.
However, Quanta could be a rich web develoment environment if Quanta team started paying more atention to PHP. For some reason, Quanta team seems to forget about dynamic web (PHP). Which is a shame, sa no decent PHP development enviroment exists for *nix .
Quanta might be used for PHP... but it is difficult to set up a debugger, for example.
you'll be up and running before you even get mandrake^H^H^H^Hriva iso's downloaded
Actualy, it will be faster to be up and running with Mandriva.
You can either download only one ISO image, or you can download the 12MB ISO for a network install, with fully GUI installer and all. I believe that debian netinstall ISO was around 85 MB.
This way, you can start installation after just downloading and burning an 12MB ISO.
If you were impressed by an already installed Ubuntu, you will be amazed with an already installed Mandriva.
Mandriva has always been the desktop Linux distribution.
Sure, Ubuntu has come a long way from its Debian origin. But, see, all this travel was already been covered by Mandrake/Mandriva many releases ago.
Ubuntu is advanced and desktop-ready, true. Bu it is at the same position as Mandrake was in the 8.x times.
I have been using Linux on the desktop for longer I care to remember. And only Mandrake provided me a true workeable Linux desktop.
Yeah, I've done the SuSE, Debian, Red Hat, Gentoo, RHEL, LFS, you name it... thing. But for a desktop, a machine that I want to just use without fuss, still Mandrake/Mandriva kicks lots of a$$.
It is easier than that. On Mandriva Linux, OpenOffice gets installed by default.
1. Insert Mandriva CD on your PC 2. Install Mandriva Linux 3. On the "software selection" make sure that the "office productivity suite" is marked (it is by default) 4. Proceed with installation
Compare to Windows:
1 to 99 steps. (Windows cumbersome installation process)
MS Windows installer, although long, doesn't offer you the choice to install MS Office.
MS Office installation represents, at least, the following steps
1. Notice that you do not have an office package installed 2. yell "WTF?" 3. Get your pants back on and go back to use both hands again 4. Go to your local software provider, during business hours. 5. buy MS Office package, and pay with $$$ 6. Go back home 7. deal with those pesky plastic box covers, which are a pain to break. 8. insert CD on your computer 9. If you have "autorun" enabled, Start clicking "Next" "OK "I accept" buttons during the next 20 minutes. Else, first go to My PC -> CD-ROM -> SetUp and then start clicking "OK" and such 10. enter license code, which is long and error-prone ("prone", not "pr0n") 11. Now, you can remove your pants, keep browsing the web one handed and open those.ppt files with n4K3d Ch1k5 that your mates sent you
Let's see, in the case that you were a complete ID10T and unchecked the "office software" during Mandriva Linux installation, you would proceed like this:
1. click the yellow star/ KDE logo/Gnome logo/"start" button 2. Go to "System" -> "Configuration" -> "Packaging" -> "Browse available software" 3. Enter root password when it's requested 4. in the "Software installation GUI", type "office" in the search box 5. Select OpenOffice.org 6. Click on "Install" button 7. profit!... errr... done!
Also, if you move your mouse over the taskbar icon that looks like a wrench over a PC, you see that tihs is "configure your computer" icon. so:
1. Click on "Configure your computer" icon 2. Enter root password when it's requested 3. Click on the icon "Look at installable software and install software packages" 4. in the "Software installation GUI", type "office" in the search box 5. Select OpenOffice.org 6. Click on "Install" button 7. profit!... errr... done!
See? You do not need to know what an urpmi is, or what a konsole is or what an OpenOffice is. Just a few clicks and you are done.
Please, compare apples to apples (no pun intended)
It would be relatively[*] the same as trying to update MS-Windows95... and get mad because http://update.windows.com/ is not working anymore for your MS-Windows 95.
See, both Mandrake Linux 9.0 and MS Windows 95 are "old" and unmaintained OS versions. Nevertheless, all the packaged for Mandrake 9.0 are STILL available in (at least in the principal) ftp servers, in the "old" section, for example here: * ftp://ftp.proxad.net/pub/Distributions_Linux/Mandr ake/old/9.0
In your previous post, you said "I installed Mandrake 9 one year ago". One year ago, you had available the most current Mandrake Linux versions, that is, 10.0 and 10.1. Both versions still have their package sources found at the regular "official" section, in all of Mandrake ftp mirrors.
[*] I use Windows 95 as a comparison, as Linux develops and moves forward faster than MS-Windows. It is interesting to note that Mandrake 9.0 was released in 2002 (see http://qa.mandriva.com/twiki/bin/view/Main/Release sHistory ), and was followed by 9.1, 9.2, 10.0, 10.1, 2005LE and 2006.0 (the most current version).
Well, Mandriva is a little partial to KDE: the included KDE version seems to be newer than the Gnome version. Then, Mandriva supports with engineers KDE. And the default GUI is KDE.
Also, a big THANK YOU for those perl-GTK bindings:)
May $DEITY bless you with just a small number of kids, but with many tries;)
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That's nice from Ubuntu to let you use an open source program available to all Linux distributions.
In Mandriva you can choose firestarter, the "wizzard-guided" firewall set up tool (great for newbies), shorewall, raw iptables and others.
I't like saying "Fords are superior to other car brands b/c I can install an aftermarket radio on my Ford".
Peace
For the sake of proper attributions, I cannot let you to call Catalans "BIGOTS"
Catalans *might* call each other "you, Polack"!, in the same way African Americans would call each other "you, Nigger!".
Nevertheless, Is it OK to call Catalans "Polacks" or to call African Americans "Niggers"?
**No**.
If a non-African American calls an African American "Nigger", the caller is getting into trouble (or asking for trouble).
The same goes for Catalans. If a non-Catalan calls "Polack" to a Catalan, the caller is getting into trouble (or asking for trouble).
Yes, even as (some) Catalans like the word "Polack" for themselves (as Poland and Catalonia have suffered similar fate in history up to the 20th Century, when Poland become again a self-governing country and Catalonia stayed ruled by Franch and Spanish governments; there's even a book that 'sings' the similitudes between Poland and Catalonia ).
I (a Catalan) rise the "Polack" question to all "real" Polish (people with Polish passport) I met: this makes for a smile and an interesting conversation starter, followed by beer and friendship.
We (Catalan people) were not the ones who used the term "Polack" to refer to "people who speak like dogs, who speak a language that is so alien that we need to call them 'Polacks' " (as they did until not so long ago). The ones who used the term were (mainly) members of Franco's Army and followers. Franco was a dictatorm in the same league as Mussolini, Hitler and similar fascist scum. And, as back then under franco's rule, the Army was formed by mandatory conscription, we (Catalan people) were denigrated, called names and "properly instructed in the Customs and Language of 'The Empire'".
So, please rdmiller3, use the term "bigot" with whoever started using the term "Polack" as a pejorative/insult/curse word towards us, Catalan people,
Peace
Reading in the TDI Club I was surprised to read that Ethanol provides worst MPG than pure gasoline.
Does anyone have information on this topic?
Because if Ethanol provides worst milleage, and it is not energy-efficient to prodce Ethanol... this might be just a marketing campaign, not a fuel product.
Peace
As far as "the best Linux distribution" for a first-time switcher, Ubuntu is as good as any other Linux distro.... as far as there is an experienced Linux user helping thorugh the first hour or two. In my case, I recommend Mandriva because is what I use.
... yes, the wiki : Try this wiki
You use Ubuntu, so Ubuntu is the best for you and your "first-time switcher friends", that's cool with me.
But for me, Mandriva is the best for me and for my "first-time switcher friends", as it is what I use.
Mandriva is very good for newbies and gurus alike: in Mandriva you have "wizards", terminals, multimedia apps, compilers, KDE themes, server stuff...
Maybe you didn't grasp the concepts of Linux, as I thought the article was pretty darn good.
As for paying Mandriva to play DVDs, it is one o the options. As the "free as in beer" Mandriva only contains "free as in Freedom" software (and only 'libre' software that follows the law in USA and in Europe), DVD utilities such as the "deCSS" software cannot be included.
Thus, Mandriva offers you a legal way to view DVDs: purchasing a boxed edition, with all that non-libre software available for you.
And there is still another way: the "deCSS" software is available on "PLF", a non official Mandriva repository that contains all the deCSS, divx codecs and all that software which happens to be not legal everywhere, and also some non-libre software, like nVidia and ATI drivers.
What else,
Peace!
Hi,
:)
Considering the hoops that I had to go through to make Mandrake do multimedia AND DVDs, your friend might as well be as skilled as 'Mr. decss' Johansen to get video or music playback.
I am not as skilled as Mr decss Johansen. Nevertheless, I got multimedia AND DVD reporduction very easily.
One option, is to buy the boxed version, which comes with support for all the proprietary stuff. I don't know if you know, but "Mandriva Free" only includes free (as in Freedom) software by design. This option (boxed version) works great for people not that expert in Linux.
Another option is to do what I did:
I went to Easy URPMI website, selected the PLF repositories, configured follogwing the instructions on that page (copy&paste), launched the GUI install program, searched for "codecs" and all the other files that had "mp3", "ogg", "dvd" , etc in the name , installed them all, and presto!:
* multimedia works like a charm: mp3, ogg, avi, mpeg... (using amaroK and gmplayer), even web-embeded content.
* I view my legal (read, protected) DVDs easily, with gmplayer or kaffeine or...
It is very easy, really. Even I can do it
I used the info found in this link. I found this link at "Mandriva Linux" entry on Wikipedia. All is explained very well.
Peace!
Yes it does.
It is called urpmi.
For Debian users:
urpmi is apt
rpm is dkpg
rpmdrake is synaptic
Urpmi comes both in command-line and GUI front-end. Urpmi also comes with a "WindowsUpdate-like" tool called MandrivaUpdate.
There is even an online urpmi configurator tool, where you can even select the program sources "forbidden" in the USA, as they contain pre-packaged programs and modules that will allow you to watch DVDs, have 3D acceleration with ATI and nVidia cards, and a whole bunch of programs that its legality is doubtful in USA, as well as non-free programs.
Peace!
Spaniard?
Wikipedia leaves it very clear: Joan Miro was a Catalan, not a Spaniard.
Joan Miró i Ferrá (April 20, 1893 - December 25, 1983) was a Catalan painter, sculptor and ceramist born in Barcelona (Catalonia, Spain).
Peace
Is it me or there seems to be two Ubuntu-related news everyday?
Yes, Ubuntu is great, Mark and Canonical are providing a ton of cash to Debian development and all that.
But I'm starting to get a little tired of a new Slashdot entry everytime there is a new commit to Ubuntu's CVS.
This is getting as old as "Such and Such Company, inc" is using Linux in an enterprise environment!
In the begining, it was exciting to hear of another company using Linux; it was new and got me all happy and feeling good.
Same thing with Ubuntu news. In the begining, I loved the fact that a company was investing in Debian. Now, well, I just get bored with the twice-a-day Ubuntu news.
Peace
Ubuntu?
Try some other Linux distro, end-user oriented, easy workstation-oriented.
Ubuntu, in all its glory, felt to me like one of those older Mandrakes (8.something): works and all, but if feels old... and Mandrake 8.2 is from 2001 or something like that.
Yes, for a Debian user, Ubuntu is an enormous leap forward in easyness and usability (as a desktop). But there are other distros that have invested years in desktop Linux.
Then, if you do not need to use a Debian-based distro and can live without the perceived 1337-ness of using a "real distro like Debian", please do youself a favour and try, say, Mandriva One.
It is a live version of Mandriva that you can easily install. I belileve is going to be realeased *any moment now*.
Sure, Ubuntu is nice and works pretty much OK, like any other Linux distro. But then, only hype and "Debian-ness" has managed to turn a mediocre desktop distro into the dearest love of all technical sites.
Do you want to run Linux on your desktop? Then try a desktop Linux, a distro with years of experience in desktop Linux, usability, etc. Don't fall for hype.
Try Linspire, PCLinuxOS (a Mandriva-derived), Mandriva...
Peace
What I wonder is how a former-VP :
... manages to only put out a 3-pages PDF that was only mildly interesting.
* who has been asked to depart the company (as a hint that his services are not needed anymore, and he is offered an easy and honourable way out),
* who instead decides to stay and start a new department,
After any merger, there are always redundant positions. Gael Duval should have got the hint and leave with a nice press release saying something like "I'll be pursuing my goals as in this momment in my life I want to do blah blah blah.".
This would have been nice of him. He would have kept an open door at Mandriva. And any company would have liked how he had exited his company.
Now, he is a walking problem. Do you think any company would like to hire a manager that sues his employer?
I don't think so.
"It's not personal, it's businness"
BTW, I use Mandriva, and I've used for a long time. Mandriva is pretty good, works for me, does all what I want, I have no trouble with it. All the FUD read here by Mandriva-haters ("rpms are bad", "apt-get is the best", "ubuntu is dah shiznitz", "Gentoo is the only way", "PCLinuxOS does everything pus more") is just FUD.
Peace
The reason why farmed crops aren't viable is because you're taking oil, turning it into soybeans and back into oil again. From a thermodynamics perspective, this is a net loss.
You forget an extra input of energy in that process: our star "the Sun". Photosynthesis uses up tons of energy from the Sun.
With this correction, you will see that The Laws of Thermodynamics are well kept.
Peace
Wrong URL (Those filters!)
_ news/article_1697.shtml
The real URL is http://www.vwvortex.com/artman/publish/volkswagen
Sorry for that.
Peace!
Try this other car:
VolksWagen Blue Motion Polo.
Performance: 59 kW / 80 hp
Average consumption: 3.9 liter (60 mpg) diesel.
The CO2 emissions: reduced by 16 g/km.
Maximum speed: 76 km/h (109 mph)
0-100-km/h (0-62 mph)-sprint: 12.8 seconds
"As basic equipment the two-door Volkswagen also has front and side airbags, ABS, power windows, multi function display and an electro hydraulic power steering"
Not bad for 60mpg car that can run on BioDiesel
Peace!
This article http://www.worldchanging.com/archives/003999.html
suggests that algae is up to 300x more efficient per acre than soy. At that point it becomes a much more competitive option.
Also keep in mind that you can farm algae off-shore (add more "farm land" using coastal waters).
From WikiPedia:
The production of algae to harvest oil for biodiesel has not been undertaken on a commercial scale, but working feasibility studies have been conducted to arrive at the above yield estimate. In addition to a high yield, this solution does not compete with agriculture for food, requiring neither farmland nor fresh water.
One thing that people might not know is that Biodiesel is a BYPRODUCT. The food part is still used as feedstock. If we get more specific, there are actually two by-products of corn and soy crops. Biodiesel and soap (glycerin).
In short, there is no trade food for fuel.
Peace!
From BioDiesel.org's FAQ:
Does biodiesel take more energy to make than it gives back?
No. Biodiesel actually has the highest "energy balance" of any transportation fuel. The
DOE/USDA lifecycle analysis shows for every unit of fossil energy it takes to make
biodiesel, 3.2 units of energy are gained. This takes into account the planting,
harvesting, fuel production and fuel transportation to the end user.
Can I use biodiesel in my existing diesel engine?
Biodiesel works in any diesel engine with few or no modifications to the engine or the
fuel system.
For example, a San Francisco tour cmpany uses BioDiesel. And they are not the only ones. Google is your friend.
Peace!
But modern diesel cars do take a conversion because they need to have synthetic tubing.
Modern diesels already have synthetic tubes.
All diesel vehicles sold in the US since (at least) year 2000 use the synthetic rubber fuel lines (which do not disolve with BioDiesel) instead the natural rubber fuel lines.
Nevertheless, if you have an older Diesel, replacing a bunch of rubber lines with off-the-shelve lines (today all diesel lines are synth) it's pretty darn easy.
Then, as a bonus, BioDiesel will clean up your injectors. This is why most of American-made Diesel engines today come from the factory with B5 or B10 (Diesel fuel containing either 5% or 10% of BioDiesel).
Peace!
Some of your examples are not quite feasible.
* The firing lines of Civil War soldiers could be completely cut down by a single man with a modern machine gun.
There were machineguns in use during Civil War (wikipedia)
* A Roman Legion could be completely destroyed by a single bomb from a fighter or helicopter.
What kind of bomb? A Legio Romana was pretty big and, in battle formation, would occupy a pretty big size of terrain. Yes, when they are all slepping in the snow, freezing to death, body-against-body, then a single bomb from a fighter-bomber might kill'em all.
Helicopters do not use bombs. Helicopters use rockets, missiles, machineguns, etc.
* An RPG or Bazooka could eliminate a castle's defenses by simply blowing a hole through the side
In order to get Bazookas or RPGs blowing holes on the side of a castle, you'll need:
1. to be too darn close, because longbows, ballistas, onagers catapults... all can hit a 2-man team witin RPG-range.
2. to aim very well. A hole located 5 feet above ground level is of no use to enter a castle
3. to fire many rockets to the same area, as the holes made by RPG-type rockets are no much bigger than a fist.
Peace!
All your post is pretty good, except your final line:
Put another way, missiles didn't win the Cold War, Bluejeans did.
It was the US military build-up[*] during Reagan's era that provoked the fall of the Evil Empire. No Evil empire, no Warsaw PAct, no Cold war.
Thus, the missiles did indeed win the Cold War.
[*] More nuclear aircraft carriers, more submarines, more and better tanks and fighter airplanes... and, of course, Star Wars Project. Not the one with Luke and Leia, the other one.
Peace!
I use KDE, I use its apps extensively. But the following statement is not true:
Quanta -- Rich web development environment for PHP, CSS, DocBook, HTML, XML, etc with advanced context sensitive autocompletion, internal preview and more.
My wish is for Quanta to pay more atention to PHP. But, sadly, right now Quanta is just a mediocre tool for PHP.
However, Quanta could be a rich web develoment environment if Quanta team started paying more atention to PHP. For some reason, Quanta team seems to forget about dynamic web (PHP). Which is a shame, sa no decent PHP development enviroment exists for *nix .
Quanta might be used for PHP... but it is difficult to set up a debugger, for example.
Peace and Godspeed
you'll be up and running before you even get mandrake^H^H^H^Hriva iso's downloaded
Actualy, it will be faster to be up and running with Mandriva.
You can either download only one ISO image, or you can download the 12MB ISO for a network install, with fully GUI installer and all. I believe that debian netinstall ISO was around 85 MB.
This way, you can start installation after just downloading and burning an 12MB ISO.
And as for the software available for Mandriva, you have 12306 packages, plus the PLF packages.
So, right now, both Debian and Mandriva have more or less the same (very high) number of packages readily available with urpmi (CLI) / rpmdrake (GUI)
Peace
A Microsoft keyboard, of course.
First, he used Keyboard 95, the first one with colour keys.
Then he switched to Keyboard 98SE, which was very good for gaming.
After the Keyboard ME failed after just unpacking, he had to wait for Keyboard 2000, which was pretty nice overall.
Now, he is looking at Keyboard Vista, but this one requires very beeffy keyboard socket.
(note to moderators: this is a joke, man!)
If you were impressed by an already installed Ubuntu, you will be amazed with an already installed Mandriva.
Mandriva has always been the desktop Linux distribution.
Sure, Ubuntu has come a long way from its Debian origin. But, see, all this travel was already been covered by Mandrake/Mandriva many releases ago.
Ubuntu is advanced and desktop-ready, true. Bu it is at the same position as Mandrake was in the 8.x times.
I have been using Linux on the desktop for longer I care to remember. And only Mandrake provided me a true workeable Linux desktop.
Yeah, I've done the SuSE, Debian, Red Hat, Gentoo, RHEL, LFS, you name it... thing. But for a desktop, a machine that I want to just use without fuss, still Mandrake/Mandriva kicks lots of a$$.
Peace
It is easier than that. On Mandriva Linux, OpenOffice gets installed by default.
.ppt files with n4K3d Ch1k5 that your mates sent you
... errr... done!
... errr... done!
1. Insert Mandriva CD on your PC
2. Install Mandriva Linux
3. On the "software selection" make sure that the "office productivity suite" is marked (it is by default)
4. Proceed with installation
Compare to Windows:
1 to 99 steps. (Windows cumbersome installation process)
MS Windows installer, although long, doesn't offer you the choice to install MS Office.
MS Office installation represents, at least, the following steps
1. Notice that you do not have an office package installed
2. yell "WTF?"
3. Get your pants back on and go back to use both hands again
4. Go to your local software provider, during business hours.
5. buy MS Office package, and pay with $$$
6. Go back home
7. deal with those pesky plastic box covers, which are a pain to break.
8. insert CD on your computer
9. If you have "autorun" enabled, Start clicking "Next" "OK "I accept" buttons during the next 20 minutes. Else, first go to My PC -> CD-ROM -> SetUp and then start clicking "OK" and such
10. enter license code, which is long and error-prone ("prone", not "pr0n")
11. Now, you can remove your pants, keep browsing the web one handed and open those
Let's see, in the case that you were a complete ID10T and unchecked the "office software" during Mandriva Linux installation, you would proceed like this:
1. click the yellow star/ KDE logo/Gnome logo/"start" button
2. Go to "System" -> "Configuration" -> "Packaging" -> "Browse available software"
3. Enter root password when it's requested
4. in the "Software installation GUI", type "office" in the search box
5. Select OpenOffice.org
6. Click on "Install" button
7. profit!
Also, if you move your mouse over the taskbar icon that looks like a wrench over a PC, you see that tihs is "configure your computer" icon. so:
1. Click on "Configure your computer" icon
2. Enter root password when it's requested
3. Click on the icon "Look at installable software and install software packages"
4. in the "Software installation GUI", type "office" in the search box
5. Select OpenOffice.org
6. Click on "Install" button
7. profit!
See? You do not need to know what an urpmi is, or what a konsole is or what an OpenOffice is. Just a few clicks and you are done.
Peace
Please, compare apples to apples (no pun intended)
... and get mad because http://update.windows.com/ is not working anymore for your MS-Windows 95.
r ake/old/9.0
e sHistory ), and was followed by 9.1, 9.2, 10.0, 10.1, 2005LE and 2006.0 (the most current version).
It would be relatively[*] the same as trying to update MS-Windows95
See, both Mandrake Linux 9.0 and MS Windows 95 are "old" and unmaintained OS versions. Nevertheless, all the packaged for Mandrake 9.0 are STILL available in (at least in the principal) ftp servers, in the "old" section, for example here:
* ftp://ftp.proxad.net/pub/Distributions_Linux/Mand
In your previous post, you said "I installed Mandrake 9 one year ago". One year ago, you had available the most current Mandrake Linux versions, that is, 10.0 and 10.1. Both versions still have their package sources found at the regular "official" section, in all of Mandrake ftp mirrors.
[*] I use Windows 95 as a comparison, as Linux develops and moves forward faster than MS-Windows. It is interesting to note that Mandrake 9.0 was released in 2002 (see http://qa.mandriva.com/twiki/bin/view/Main/Releas
Peace
Well, Mandriva is a little partial to KDE: the included KDE version seems to be newer than the Gnome version. Then, Mandriva supports with engineers KDE. And the default GUI is KDE.
:)
;)
Also, a big THANK YOU for those perl-GTK bindings
May $DEITY bless you with just a small number of kids, but with many tries
Peace